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Originally Posted by scarabchuck
I proved this with my daughter. I would have my guns out for cleaning and she would ask questions I would explain things to her and eventually she came to care less about them. And the instance when she was older and a boy friend was showing of a rifle she called him out for being careless with how he was handling it.
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Worked for me. I was 4 or 5 when my father took me to shoot a 22 pistol.
I had firearms in the house, they were in a glass cabinet with ammo locked up underneath the display in the cabinet.
Never had a reason to pull one out, show it off to friends, or play with it.
Why? I'd catch a beating.
If I wanted to shoot, I just had to ask my dad. Until about 14 years old. Then I just had to tell him or my mother where I would be shooting and grab whatever rifle/shotgun, ammo, targets, hop on a quad and go up in the woods.
There were times I had friends spend the night. They'd go home and tell their parents we had guns. The phone would ring and it would be the kids mother or father FREAKING out... yet... those rifles/shotguns never left the cabinet, nor were they touched...
Some parents didn't find it crazy or offensive to have firearms present in the home. They themselves had firearms too...
Odd how that works... when the theme is kids are natural bullet magnets and will play with guns and shoot themselves, their siblings, their friends who spend the night etc etc...
Rod and gun club I was a member of from 13-24, there were many times where I was the only person present on a Sunday (18+). Shooting all by myself.
So, it's not rocket surgery to figure out if you want to prevent something, regardless of how uncomfortable that thing may be (like safe sex/sex ed) to discuss, it would be beneficial to discuss it, rather than fear monger, and create an allure...
Why anyone would oppose safe practices taught is beyond me unless it's because it hurts someone's ego to have safety taught by someone other than themselves to their kids.
But parents don't parent any more. Load the kid up on Ritalin and toss a video game to keep them pre-occupied. It's the "A.D.D./A.D.H.D." Paying attention, seems "parents" these days want the school to raise jr, and something to keep the kid preoccupied so they don't disturb mommy and daddy dearest.
I'm calling it exactly how I see it. There are not many parents who parent these days.
Just because you made one or a dozen, doesn't make you a parent...
So if the school won't teach the kids, then you must be a parent and get out of the lazy boy put down the remote, actually engage and interact with your kids, and be a parent... stop relying on the school or government to do it for you, you lazy pricks.
Of everyone I know 25-35 that have kids (cousins and friends from highschool and college) a significant majority follows the same trend of blatting and getting the kid some sort of medicine prescribed to deal with a make believe condition, toss them a video game, a tablet, computer etc, so they aren't bothered by the kid. And the kids don't play outside either. They're fragile. It disgusts me, I'd rather spend time with my kids build tree houses for them, ride dirt bikes and quads with them, take them shooting/hunting, actually be a part of their lives rather than be in a room distant from me with a video game going 6 hours per night...
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